“I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.” ThinkingWorldTryingHas BeensPiecesFiguresComplicatedHearingListenersTerrific Author:Leo Ornstein
“In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?” KnowsTryingPiecesFiguresDnaSurgeonsCosmeticsOne PieceAnother Life Author:Tom Ford
“The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.” WorldLanguageBitsPiecesFiguresDegreesPicksConstructsBarbaraBits And PiecesVernacularPictures And Words Author:Barbara Kruger
“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.” WayTryingMadeRoomsPiecesFiguresFascinatingNew WaysPuppyInventingDebrisFluff Author:Julie Klam
“Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.” PeopleNeedsBelieveIdeasProcessBlackWhiteFocusPiecesFiguresModelsSpeedDefinedExecutionWithin YouBlack And WhiteStaticAlgorithmsBusiness Models Author:Gurbaksh Chahal
“Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.” NeedsWritingEndsWholeStoriesPiecesJourneyFrontsFiguresNotesBoxesSentencesWhole LifeLandscapePuzzlesSticky Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindMeanReasonPiecesFiguresInterviewsInterviewers Author:Lil Wayne
“My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.” IfsFirstsCareersPiecesAdviceFiguresCareer AdviceGifting Author:Michelle Singletary
“The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.” ThinkingKnowsSaidFeelingsFightingDealsPiecesWifeAdviceFiguresMarriedSticksCarefulBe CarefulSympatheticCareful What You Say Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.” FactsHappensTogetherIndividualPiecesFiguresInformationProduceThings HappenLinkedAmazing Things Author:Ben Goldacre
“It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.” IfsFeelsDoeBodyJobsThreeHoursRoomsPiecesFiguresStrangeBabyCardsMy TimeHotelUnusualMumMake Me HappyNewbornHotel RoomsPunchingNewborn Baby Author:Naomi Watts
“As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space because for actors it's a micro-focus and then you figure out your arc through what the writers have given you to say. But that arc is just one little piece of the huge arc of the whole film. It took a while to get out of that.” KnowsLittlesWholeFilmPurposeActorsGivenSpaceFocusPiecesFiguresHugeSceneJust OneArcs Author:Grant Heslov
“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.” IfsThinkingFirstsBelieveUseProblemKidsI BelieveParentMorningIssuesPiecesDoorsAirFiguresSkillsCapableToolsBalls Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.” IfsTryingDifferentTogetherFunProcessPiecesOne ThingFiguresHundredDifferent ThingsEditingFrustrating Author:Scott Foley
“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.” ShouldWritingWellsPiecesTeachingAdviceFiguresExpressionSpeechCapableMetaphorPhilosopherNoblePursuitPracticalsHelpfulApplicationHappy LifeHuntsCommonplaceExtravagantSpiritedFigures Of Speech Author:Seneca the Younger
“If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.” IfsGivingMindFilmSoundSpaceSupportPiecesFiguresCreationShapesPaperDrawsRedBlankComponents Author:Alex Abreu
“Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.” TryingEnergyBreakPiecesFansFiguresGunRoseHeavyIronMetalsBreaking DownBassMaidensTickHeavy MetalMetallicaGrungeIron MaidenDrum And Bass Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.” WritingStillsI CanNightNextMorningPiecesCarFiguresComputerLateTapeTypewriters Author:Eddie Vedder
“Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God's hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.” WantDoeIdeasCountryHandsLawPiecesCenturyFiguresIslamPhilosopherChainsFlamesHeatIslamicAlsAlasLaws Of NatureInfluentialCottonIncoherence Author:Steven Weinberg
“No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensPlayWholeTogetherAmericaPastNationsPresidentPiecesStyleFiguresNewsSeriesVicesJournalistInterviewsAddressesFriendlyEntityConferencesVice PresidentGreat NationsEntirety Author:Peggy Noonan
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens